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9098 9101
A SMALL WHITE JADE LANDSCAPE BOULDER A PAIR OF LARGE SPINACH JADE RECTANGULAR PLAQUES
Of narrow irregular profile and carved in high relief with two young MOUNTED AS TABLE SCREENS
boys walking on a mountain path toward an elephant at momentary Each of thin rectangular section and carved in relief with landscape
rest below a tree growing on a rocky precipice while cranes flock scenes, one showing figures seated in a simple rural retreat amid
around a waterfall, the reverse worked with further trees, a water trees and rocks, the other of sages standing in the open court of an
course and faceted rock faces, the stone of very pale greenish-white elaborate mountainside villa, the reverse of each inscribed with seal-
hue finished with a flat base; with pieced wood display stand. script inscriptions; the reticulated wood frames fitting into similarly
4 1/8in (10.5cm) long worked stands with transverse feet.
3 1/2in (9cm height including wood stand 24 x 15in (61 x 38cm) approximate dimensions of plaques
37 1/4in (94.5cm) height overall table screen
US$8,000 - 12,000
US$5,000 - 7,000
9099
A PALE CREAMY-WHITE JADE BOWL 9102
18th/19th century A DARK GREEN JADE TABLE SCREEN
Of circular form with a wide curving well carved in delicate raised Of vertical format, carved in high relief with a beauty playing the lute
relief with prunus branches in bloom that follow pale russet-stained as she sits on a garden rock beneath a tree, the clouds in the sky
fissure lines in the matrix and a grey vein nearby carved as a butterfly, and the grasses on the ground plane incised in narrow lines also
the branches continuing across the exterior walls set against a cloud used for the seal script inscription on the reverse; set within a pieced
collar pattern and then onto the base combined with cloud banks and reticulated lacquered wood display stand.
and four low curving feet (broken and re-stuck). 16 3/4 x 8 1/4in (42.5 x 21cm) the jade screen
6 1/4in (16cm) diameter 23in (58.5cm) height including wood stand
US$1,000 - 1,500 US$2,500 - 3,000
9100 9103
A PALE GREENISH-WHITE JADE TWO-SECTION WATER TWO SMALL CELADON JADE BOWLS
COUPE Late Qing dynasty
Each container shaped as a deeply hollowed peach nestled amid The first a pale celadon jade Mughal-style floriform bowl of mallow
leaves and flowers sprouting from deeply undercut branches that shape, very thinly carved in high relief with the five-petal flower head
also support three long-billed birds (losses to reticulated decoration). centering the shallow well and further petals radiating upward to form
5 1/2in (14cm) long the walls, the petals on the exterior filled with further blossoms, the
foot and recessed base carved as another flower head (damaged);
US$2,000 - 3,000 the second simply shaped with a well-cut foot ring supporting the
body of inverted bell form that thins as it flares outward at the rim.
3 3/4 and 4 1/2in (9.6 and 11.3cm) diameter
US$1,500 - 2,500
Provenance
Sotheby’s, London sale 16210, 11 May 2016, part of lot 150
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